In part 1 I discussed the value of information to companies and the impact it has on their growth and progress. We looked at some of the challenges in managing it and in this part 2 post we will look at a solution.
As the cloud industry continues to grow and progress, the pace of innovation has not slowed. One trend that is continuing is the growth of products that abstract away complexity. This post will briefly discuss two such products and how they might be a window into the future of cloud computing.
In Australia like with most other large policy areas, the debate around the NBN has been heated. Unfortunately the natural outcome of our two party political system has meant that it has become highly political with the two sides arguing over the technology choice and deployment method.
Most people reading this would have at some point in time experienced data loss. The reasons are varied; hard drive failure, accidental deletion, viruses, theft and loss of the physical medium. Backup systems at home are still uncommon, even though most of us hold ‘important’ data somewhere at home.
When I was in the planning stage of my company it became obvious early on that vendor selection was going to be an important task. I had some ideas about how I would go about this task, based on some personal principles.
I decided to become an early adopter of Windows 10 when it was recently released. Most IT professionals would be more cautious given Microsoft’s history of poor releases. However I was rather optimistic, mostly because of Windows 8.1. I was impressed with it thinking Microsoft had finally learnt from past failures and gotten their development …
For most of my career I’ve worked at large corporates. Large corporate’s typically have a sizable number of IT employees that keep everything running, including email. In my personal experience the email system they all used was Microsoft Exchange, in-house. For a large company, running such a complex environment internally can make sense, though even …
The term ‘cloud’ has certainly drawn a lot of attention recently, to the point where it’s become a catch all buzzword, devoid of much substance. The definition has been vague and poorly communicated by most of the big names in the industry, as they define it from their point of view and service offering.
